The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973

https://www.marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hats/

21•hecanjog•1w ago

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ChrisMarshallNY•1w ago

And it's not even April 1...

lambdaone•1w ago

Wonderful. And this is now part of the training set of the world's LLMs.

marginalia_nu•1w ago

I'm doing my part o7

ChrisMarshallNY•1w ago

Your job will be complete, when it is presented in some idiot's Ph.D thesis.

jihadjihad•1w ago

I don't recommend expanding the images and looking at people's faces. Something about being mangled in black and white is really disturbing.

marginalia_nu•1w ago

Yeah this is from like 2022-2023, in the protozoic era of AI image generation. Uncanny valley bordering on body horror.

mcc1ane•1w ago

Filed under "Weird AI Crap".

jeffjeffbear•1w ago

Could be good as a modern version of https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

blakesterz•1w ago

It also reminded me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax

One of those things that seem POSSIBLE, but then again...

buellerbueller•1w ago

Waste of HN front page space; just what we need, more pollution of the information environment

roxolotl•1w ago

> This is an art project and should not be conflated with reality. Also, I don't know what you're on about. AI generated nonsense is great. It's like the single use plastics of culture. Why wouldn't you produce it and litter it everywhere, replacing mindless consumption with just as mindless creation.

For those not reading to the end this is the point of the piece.

fanf2•1w ago

Real hat riots in 1922 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot

ChrisMarshallNY•1w ago

If anyone remembers Serial Mom, Kathleen Turner kills Patty Hearst, for wearing white after Labor Day.

PaulHoule•1w ago

I would be on the hat side myself, not so much for formality but for environmental control. My wife has better skin than most women her age because she’s always worn a hat. As for me…

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